'The Crown' Season 4 Trailer Introduces Gillian Anderson's Margaret Thatcher

Though fans have been anticipating the arrival of Diana Spencer on The Crown virtually since the series began, the full trailer for Season 4 reminds us that there's another powerful woman waiting to step on the scene: Margaret Thatcher.

Britain's first female Prime Minister arrives in full force in this clip, in the form of Gillian Anderson spouting classic Thatcheresque slogans about the self-sufficiency and sacrifice of the British people and enduring deeply awkward audiences with Olivia Colman's Queen Elizabeth. The delicious few seconds in which the two women discuss their respective ages is a tiny encapsulation of their oddly fraught relationship.

Though I suspect on some level we can't really blame either of them for not quite knowing how to navigate this strange new world that suddenly saw two women at the summit of British political life. (That line from Elizabeth about two women running the shop being precisely what the country needs feels like as much a sop to modern audiences who are hyper-aware of the difficult road that women in leadership roles such as theirs must travel rather than anything Elizabeth might have actually said.)